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LG has been getting plenty of attention these days because of some recent carrier announcements (case in point: Sprint announced it would carry the LG Mach and Optimus G), but that’s not all the LG hardware here at MobileCon 2012. T-Mobile recently outed a new LG device of its own...

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Here's why Facebook's $1 billion Instagram acquisition was smart. While Facebook owns the photo-sharing on the Web, it had an open flank on mobile, thanks to in part to its slow, poorly-designed HTML5 apps. Instagram was exploiting this flank, reaching 35 million users in under two years. When Instagram raised...

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PC, PS3, Xbox 360; £30; Codemasters; age: 7+Eccentric Irish-American billionaire Patrick Callahan launches World Series Racing, a franchise that collects together the world's best and brightest racers for a globe-hopping battle royale. Thanks to a performance in a race in Chicago, you're chosen as WSR's poster boy (or girl), which...

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Mark one up for Samsung. After months of legal and PR battles, the South Korean company is finally able to sell and market their iPad clone in Germany. Just don’t call it an iPad clone anymore. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N (pictured left) is slightly different from the iPad —...

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Logitech’s UltraThin iPad keyboard has been a favored traveling companion of mine since it came out on top of Matt’s keyboard case review battle, but the iPad mini has since supplanted my full-size iPad 3 whenever I hit the road. Fortunately, Logitech has just recently announced a pint-sized version of...

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Editor’s note: Rob May is the CEO and co-founder of Backupify, the leading provider of backup and recovery solutions for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Google recently announced that it will begin offering corporate control features for its Google+ social network to businesses for free — at least for a while. If...

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You’d never get a kit like this on the market today. Too many tiny, delicious pieces. Kids these days all want to know what an objective mirror tastes like; it’s almost like that rarest of delicacies, unicorn flank. But I digress, and this isn’t a cryptoculinary blog. This kit,...

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As the RCA celebrates its 175th anniversary, its new campus in Battersea paints a vivid portrait of an institution in fluxAn exhibition opens this Friday to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Royal College of Art, the world's oldest art and design school in continuous operation. Titled A Perfect Place...

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Now that Ericsson has successfully bagged BelAir Networks, Ruckus Wireless has a big target painted on its flank. The metro-Wi-Fi vendor not only plays in the same outdoor hotspot space as BelAir, it’s arguably been more successful. As Ericsson’s competitors look to integrate Wi-Fi much more deeply into their mobile network...

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Simeon Simeonov is founder of Swoop. The coverage of Google I/O 2013 developer conference has focused on Google’s plans for world domination through an increasingly more interrelated and stickier set of consumer services. What’s gone unnoticed is Google’s radical developer ecosystem management strategy. The company has made a fateful...

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Facebook recently made some changes to its photo viewer that make it look a lot more like Google+. The feature is currently rolling out to Facebook users. Now, comments flank the picture you're viewing on its right side, just like on Google+. A Facebook representative told us on January...

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Apple is once again rumored to be going against the wishes of late co-founder Steve Jobs as it prepares to launch a 7-inch version of its popular iPad tablet. While speaking with Computerworld, Technology Business Research analyst Ezra Gottheil said that Apple may be preparing to launch two new products...

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Manchester City forced a late win from a Sergio Agüero goal but this entertaining contest was tainted by the racist chants aimed at Mario Balotelli and Yaya Touré, the latest such unsavoury incidents to disfigure English clubs' seasons. Kolo Touré, an unused member of City's playing staff here, was said...